1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.